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You can't call a few minor spending cuts, large increases in taxes and regulations and no actual structural reforms austerity; you must know this, having claimed to read those particular economists' writings.
And reality is enough of a refutation of labor theory, you can spend 10 hours making a wooden bicycle, but

Your first paragraph highlights the failure of Marx's belief in a deterministic economic model. The proletariat masses are not destined to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie, because they're NOT the means of production or the cause of their woes.

Reality is the butcher of bad ideas, and when the Marxist revolutionaries were confronted by it they became dictators.
You can't have redistribution of property and production without a coercive force to impose it. Its certainly possible for small communes of like-minded individuals to exist, but without incentives

Can't you guys put down Das Kapital for just an hour or two and read something else? Something with another point of view, perhaps…
Its like reading a Sean Hannity book to learn what those dirty liberals really think!
Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into every branch of the government?! I didn't know that was a

Stripped by reality, perhaps. Every attempt has ended in abject failure.

The thing about Fable 2 is that when you sacrifice your youth for the girl's, you can get that youth back by doing good things and/or eating "pure" food.

Actually Bhelen really helps the Dwarves, he encourages trade with the outside and gives the poor and Casteless a chance at social mobility by fighting Darkspawn. I couldn't imagine helping him if I ever played his sibling, but he's good for the dwarves. Harrowmont is generally a bad choice and he'll be assassinated

Its also implied that Ashur would never free the slaves and has little control over the other slaves, so I'm glad they didn't go through with the Snake look-alike killing the baby. The choice between protecting slavers and killing a baby is way too bleak, even for a non Bethesda Fallout game.
Plus, Ashur's wife was a

That's yet to be established. It looks like Age of Ultron will confirm or deny it

Its not an attack to call them skinny, its what they are. All of his female casts fit a body mold, short and skinny, designed for the male gaze. Female action stars should be depicted realistically like every other male action star in tv ad film

And she's gorgeous, dammit! Her muscles add to her attractiveness just as much as Chris Pratt's do, and Hollywood Execs need to realize this. Blade 3 may have been garbage, but it showed us what female action heroes should look like with Jessica Biel, its too bad too few actresses can put in the work she did

Then that's definite Artistic License-Physics and Girl-Fu, and it makes no sense how a girl her size can do what she does. Flipping a grown man over by his arm is not as simple as Charmed/Buffy/Firefly/etc/etc would have us believe.

Black Widow isn't his character and ScarJo is not very athletic, let alone well muscled. And the whole reason she's able to do what she does is she was modified in some way by the Black Widow program.

Shadow summed it up pretty well, I think his characters, male or female are generally equal in terms of depth.
The problem is whenever he makes a female character who can fight, he makes it a plot element that their muscle mass is irrelevant. Slayers have supernatural strength, and River is genetically modified

The problem is whenever he makes a female character who can fight, he makes it a plot element that their muscle mass is irrelevant. Slayers have supernatural strength, and River is genetically modified somehow, and the same with Dollhouse. Its almost like he goes out of his way to keep his female characters under 5'5"

Muscle is a necessary part of fighting unless you're a 100 year old 5 ft Japanese Hermit who practices some ancient form of martial arts.
Every action hero on tv and film who can fight has sizable muscle mass, the same can't be said of action heroines or supporting characters. Hollywood has to be willing to show that

A Mycroft archetype? An older( or younger in the case of Monk), smarter brother, impairment overriding his potential( laziness for Mycroft, agoraphobia for Ambrose)

Besides Buffalo Bill, I've only ever seen him play western characters

Maybe he can write some non-waifish female characters who can kick ass in his future projects and let his actresses gain some decent muscle. Give me some T2 Sarah Connors and Haywire Mallory Kanes and then talk about sexism in Hollywood.

Yes, yes, and Jean Grey would be better use building skyscrapers, Storm would be better use taking care of farms, and Wolverine would be better use starring in Gay Bear porn, we get it! But they're comic book characters, dammit, they're gonna have to be superheroes.